The document discusses methods and strategies for more effectively implementing the European Security Strategy, focusing on bridging the divide between security and development. It provides the example of the Stimson Center's "dual benefit" model for building counterterrorism and nonproliferation capacity, which links assistance in one area like border controls for weapons to help in another area like drug trafficking prevention. This model aims to help donor and partner countries achieve both security and development goals simultaneously. The document also questions how this divide can be bridged in practice and explores applying this model in Africa to reinforce the multilateral system while helping countries achieve overlapping objectives from the European Security Strategy and initiatives like the Millennium Development Goals.